David Gilmour Does U.S. Late Night TV for First Time in 8 Years

David Gilmour appeared on the Tonight Show on Thursday to celebrate his five-night run at Madison Square Garden.

While he was being interviewed by Jimmy Fallon, the Pink Floyd guitarist was able to answer some questions and put some rumors to rest.

He was also given the chance to play some of his new music for the TV audience who might not have heard it yet since MTV is dead and radio seems to shy away from elderly rockers and their solo projects.

The 78-year-old guitar hero who, along with Floyd, sold their catalogue last month to Sony Records for $400 million answered questions from the former Saturday Night Live cast member about smoking, his modeling career, and his long marriage.

But the question a lot of people wanted to know was what he thought about the fact that people have been syncing Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to The Wizard of Oz (1939).

This synch has over 3.8 million views. People are obsessed.

While watching the sync above pay attention to the period from 19:15 through 19:36 when "The Great Gig In the Sky" (which is the tornado that brings Dorothy to Oz) ends and "Money" begins right as she opens the door and the film turns to color.

Gilmour admitted he had not just heard of the oddity about the two classic pieces of art, but that he had checked it out himself, of course.

“Someone said... on the third roar of the MGM lion, you put the needle on for the beginning of Dark Side and there’s these strange synchronicities that happen," he said to Fallon.

He denied the band meant for it to work out this way, but did agree that there were "strange coincidences” between the Oscar-winning film and the album which spent more than 970 weeks in the Billboard top 200 album charts in the US (a record even Taylor Swift hasn't broken).

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Speaking of dark, Gilmour then performed "Dark and Velvet Nights" from his new album, Luck and Strange, which is the first new album he released in nine years.

The tune which he played with Questlove and The Roots was derived from a poem his wife, Polly, wrote for him on their wedding anniversary and he put music to it.

Of the songs he's performed this year, the one his sweety wrote has been performed the most.

"It was so exciting to have come across this groove," David wrote in a statement when the single dropped earlier this year.

"Polly had given me a beautiful poem for our wedding anniversary, which was sitting on the desk right next to me, so I picked it up and sang it on the track, to hear what it would sound like with words. I played it to Polly, and she said, 'Lovely, great, I’ll need to fiddle with it a bit.' So she added a couple of verses, and there it was – very serendipitous.“

Even though the door would be open any time he knocked, his appearance on Thursday (11/7) was his first late night TV appearance in the U.S. since 2016.

On that trip across the pond he performed on the Jimmy Kimmel show where he played a number of tunes including the classic Pink Floyd tune, "Wish You Were Here."

One of the more memorable times Gilmour was on U.S. late night tv was in 2006 when he performed on the Tonight Show when it was held in Burbank, California.

On that appearance he did the title track of his third solo album, On An Island, along side two of the best singers in town: Graham Nash and David Crosby.

Sadly that tune hasn't been in a David Gilmour set since 2016 during his Rattle That Lock Tour.

The five-night residency spelled the end of David's touring schedule for this year. Unfortunately there are no future dates on his website. But you should bookmark his page and check in occasionally when you're not syncing Pink Floyd tunes with classic films.

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Last updated: 11 Dec 2024, 03:12 UTC